West Broadway

Sorry for waking you like this, but I think I found you an apartment.

It's a one bedroom for $140 a month on Prince and West Broadway.

The only thing is, you have to come see it right now, and if you want it, I need three months up front and a $500 cash fee for my friend who will transfer his lease to your name at 9:00 AM this morning." What happened next?

So in New York, it's always, like, a thing to get an apartment.

And the guy was like, "This is my cousin Kim, and I wanna transfer my lease to her." She's like, "Okay," and it was all, it took, like, 15 minutes, it was done.

I got the apartment.

And I had had to, by the way, in the middle of the night go look at the apartment, 'cause I said, "I have to see it." So Ellen from Garretson Mansion took me there, and it was a fifth-floor walk-up on West Broadway and Prince.

The tub was in the kitchen.

Chapter 16.

West Broadway.

Did you ever hear of Finn Square? No? Very well, then.

We shall have to inflict upon you some paragraphs from our unpublished work, A Scenic Guidebook to the Sixth Avenue L.

Streets where an L runs have a fascination of their own.

They have a shadowy gloom, speckled and striped with the sunlight that slips through the trestles.

West Broadway, which along most of its length is straddled by the L, is a channel of odd humors.

Its real name, you know, is South Fifth Avenue.

A bad night for some people who parked in this parking lot in Tribeca.

Firefighters responding to a car elevator collapse at around 6 tonight at a lot on Warren Street near West Broadway.

Nobody was hurt, but you can see one car ended up on its roof.

Firefighters haven't said exactly how many vehicles were damaged late.

So, 27, I left my salon in Jersey.

Worked towards getting a job in the city, so I started working at Cutler's Salon down in SoHo on West Broadway and was hired as their operational manager, which was great.

It was my first sort of break into the big city kind of thing.

And through my experience at Cutler, we did a lot of hair sponsorships and partnerships at New York Fashion Week.

Others have surgical masks.

And other people are just taking off their shirts and tying it around their face for fear of the debris and smoke that is filling along Broadway here, along Hudson Street.

I spoke to one woman.

A lot of people are just standing around just trying to take this all in, very dazed and confused.

all right 10 10 wins senior correspondent sam brooks and that is a missing equation in store we have no idea what the casualties might be we may get some kind of summation from the hospitals as the day goes on about people who were taken there who were injured or may have died but we have no idea what the casualty might be casualty amount in the from the world trade center just no idea whatsoever but it's presumed that a lot of people may have died.

1010 Windsor reporter Al Jones is down in lower Manhattan now.

Well, Ralph, as we headed down West Broadway, and this was before either one of the towers had given away, everybody was standing, lining the streets, staring at what was going on, a lot of disbelief, hands over the mouth, people running this way and that.

But when the collapse occurred, and especially the second collapse, which totally covered all the streets south of Chamber with an ash coating, That's when the panic set in, and people started to run up the street screaming, and a lot of folks dipped into buildings, anything that was open, trying to get away from it.

That's the one we were just looking at.

It's in here between Washington, Barclay, and West Broadway, surrounded by those streets.

Look how far away it is from WTC1.

It's way over here.

That's how this goes.

All right.

Now we're up at West Broadway in Barclay, which is at the...

If this is WTC 7 and this is North, we're all the way up at this corner over here.

He's slowly kind of adjusting.

And there's a dog park that the Soho Grand Hotel runs on Grand, like West Broadway and Thompson.

And you have to just buy a membership.

But I did because it just looked really nice.